WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE COLD WAR ERA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following ways of promoting democracy describes the Mar$hall Plan?
A
Containing Communism so that it cannot spread any farther
B
Giving money to countries so they do not become Communist
C
Finding ways other than nuclear missiles to stop Communism
D
Fighting wars by using other countries to stop Communism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The goals of containment were to keep communism from spreading to other countries. The truman doctrine was the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting soviet pressures to become communist. The Eisenhower doctrine spread those goal by taking the truman doctrine to include the middle east.

Detailed explanation-2: -The economic side of containment: the Marshall Plan was devised to prevent communist takeover of European nations by pumping American aid into the ailing economies and infrastructures of Western Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following was an effect of the Marshall Plan that led to a more unified Western Europe? Trade expanded between a number of nations.

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